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[calliopes_pen]

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Until a couple years ago, I would have said that I didn't have one. I don't watch Christmas specials or Christmas-related movies. They aren't my cup of tea, given my preference for Halloween and horror movies. However, thanks to a chance encounter on BBC America either last year or the year before, I now watch Blackadder's Christmas Special (from 1988, according to what I've read). They seem to have taken to showing it every year, a few days to a week before Christmas.

Despite the fact I don't usually care for Rowan Atkinson, (Curse of the Fatal Death is a rare exception to this--I loathe Mr. Bean) I think it's funny.

They don't show Blackadder on BBC America, so outside of the Christmas special I've never seen the show. It's on my list to eventually try.

Comments

[yamx]

Blackadder is BRILLIANT! All of it. (And this is coming from someone who also loathes Mr. Bean. I hate that RA went from doing on of the most brilliant comedy programs ever to that drivel.)

Though my favorite Christmas specials is, and always will be, A Muppets Christmas Carol.

[calliopes_pen]

I have a very long list of shows to try before next year's Yuletide. Over 50, and the top is currently Forever Knight, She-Wolf of London, Slings and Arrows--if I can track down the episodes on Youtube, then I'll bump it up to fourth on the list. I'll check around other places, too.

I think I saw that one in the theater--Michael Caine was in it, and it was the only Muppet movie I had ever seen until I accidentally caught Muppet Treasure Island a couple weeks ago. (And kept watching, because of Tim Curry, and the fact The Nostalgia Critic had mentioned the opening part) I stopped paying any attention to Muppet Christmas Carol when a musical number started.

Which had to be tough, since I think I saw it in the theater...how do you ignore that?

[marag.livejournal.com]

Blackadder is absolutely wonderful. I still quote it on a regular basis. Just the other day I said to Avi "Oh Edmund, not the sheep."

And there's always the classic "To you, Baldric, the Renaissance was something that happened to other people."

[calliopes_pen]

As of right now, my favorite line would have to be: "Greetings of the season to you, Blackadder! May the Yule log slip from your fire and burn your house down!" It’s just the way he says it.

Picturing the context for the sheep, however? Priceless.

[minim_calibre]

Blackadder (especially Blackadder Goes Forth) is utterly brilliant. It's about as unlike Mr Bean as a thing can be.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

There was a Blackadder Christmas show being shown on BBC America this year--Blackadder's Christmas Carol. But it's already aired.

[calliopes_pen]

When I posted that, they had just shown Blackadder's Christmas special (1988 version, I don't know if there's another) again, around 11 AM.